<div dir="ltr">Well surely if we r eschewing typical mail storage formats like mbox and IMAP then a database is the way to go<br>unless your suggesting we write some form of storage library as well.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Nicolas Pouillard <<a href="mailto:nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com">nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Excerpts from Richard Heycock's message of Wed Jul 23 10:45:06 +0200 2008:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Mon Jul 21 07:33:24 +1000 2008:<br>
> > In which the new version of Sup is described!<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://all-thing.net/2008/07/rethinking-sup-part-ii.html" target="_blank">http://all-thing.net/2008/07/rethinking-sup-part-ii.html</a><br>
><br>
> I really like the idea and I have to say that I'm *very* glad that you<br>
> are keeping the ncurses interface.<br>
><br>
> My one concern is that you are thinking of using Sphinx and as a<br>
> consequence you are relient on a relational database. Is that really<br>
> what you want for a mail client? I find this disturbing on two levels:<br>
> having a full blown database system for email seems like overkill and<br>
> the idea of an index bring based on a relational model quite appaling.<br>
><br>
> There are a number of other indexs such as Xapian or Hyper Estraier<br>
> both have ruby bindings and both are quite mature and widely used in<br>
> other projects.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm also concerned by using relying on relational databases for a mail<br>
service.<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>--Teroz
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